Fine
92p
96 Tb points
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Wine Description
The Story
The Eberbach Monastery is not only the most valuable wine estate in Germany, it is also the German wine estate having the most steep slopes (70 hectares with a gradient of more than 35 %).It was recognized early at the Eberbach Monastery that special wines grow on the steep slopes in the Rheingau. This consideration shaped the cultural landscape in a special way in the past and still does so today.
Vintage 1976
The 1976 wine vintage in Germany was an absolutely fantastic, legendary, and historically monumental success for sweet white wines, widely ranked as one of the greatest cooler-climate harvests of the 20th century. The severe European heatwave and historic summer drought worked perfectly in favor of steep Riesling vineyards along the Mosel, Saar, Ruwer, and Rheingau rivers, triggering unprecedented sugar concentration while perfectly preserving...
